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New York Times, 21 September 1921.
"Our institution will teach pure, 100 per cent Americanism," said General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Secretary and Business manager of the KKK's newly launched educational venture, Lanier University. FORREST TELLS AIMS OF KU KLUX COLLEGE 100 Per Cent. AmericanHe stated that the present building, situated on a three-acr
"Most of our large universities now are turning out Socialists, cynics and atheists...there are two courses which every student will be required to take. One of these is a course on the Constitution of the US and the other is in Biblical literature."
"We intend that the university shall be non-sectarian, & we do not intend to teach any religious creed, but we do intend that it shall be a Christian university, & every student will be required to attend lectures on the Bible by Biblical scholars of the highest qualifications."
LOL...we're not teaching any creed, we are just requiring all students to study Christianity as defined by white conservative Southerners.
Lanier University failed within a year or so. [Shocking, I know.] In a lovely historical irony, the building in which it was housed was repurposed as a synagogue in 1949. lostcolleges.com/360-lanier-uni…
Forrest had some opinions about proper public school curricula in Atlanta as well as higher education.
Just so folks didn't think this was just a Georgia thing, here's a law passed by what was known as "the Klan legislature" in Oregon in 1922.
I grew up in a small town in central PA. The nearby city of Altoona had one of the largest per capita rates of Klan membership in the country. In my hometown, a substantial portion of adult men purchased Klan robes in the early 1920s.
"Lanier University. A School that is distinctive...A school laying unusual stress upon Christian principles as the foundation of our civilization and the ideals of pure Americanism."

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